WEBVTT - Drive Time: Dolphins 2025 Draft Preview with Kyle Crabbs Part 1 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:13.680 What is up Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:16.919 I am your host, Travis Wingfield and on today's show, 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:21.239 part one of a two part Dolphins draft preview extravaganza 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:22.520 with the great Kyle Krabs. 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:24.079 We do it every single year. 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:26.880 You're number five coming your way right now from the 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:30.040 Baptist Hull Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:36.159 is the Draft Time Podcast. Probably could have set that 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:37.640 up a little bit earlier by telling you we're going 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:40.960 to talk about all things Dolphins off season, modes of 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:46.400 roster building, cap management, future cash considerations, free agent evaluations 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:48.320 before we get into the thirteenth pick of the draft. 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:50.720 On this episode of the podcast. Let's go ahead and 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:53.160 get to my friend Kyle Krabs. It is that time 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:55.960 of year again, our fifth straight year of doing this, 0:00:56.080 --> 0:01:00.880 the Kyle Krabs Dolphins two part Draft Extravaganza his Draft week. 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:03.560 The Dolphins are on the clock, the earliest they have 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:06.440 been since we started doing this back in twenty twenty. 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:09.800 Kyle Krab's host of the Lockdown Dolphins podcast. He is 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:12.120 the NFL Draft leader for the thirty third team, the 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:15.440 author of Touchdown Miami. Locked on NFL Scouting, He has 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:18.320 a billion jobs and has a billion hours of tape 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:19.840 logged this draft season. 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:21.440 Kyle, what's up? 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:25.280 Man? You may be joking, but it's probably not too 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:27.480 far off from a billion hours of tape log for 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:28.280 this class. 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:31.240 The man has no voice. He's been doing this so much. 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:32.840 He has no voice left or force. But he's gonna 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:36.120 give us two straight podcast yes one sitting with no voice. 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:39.399 Plaine hurt today his Jordan Game six is flu game. 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:42.160 And Kyle, you just sent me a document that I 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:48.640 think pretty much explains your level of work and dedication 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:50.840 that went into the draft cycle. Tell me what you 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:52.400 just sent me through an email? 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:55.960 So I gave you access to the twenty twenty five 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.560 pretty much the doc. I have to keep all of 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:04.480 my Dolphins specific stuff, and that includes two different variations 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:06.720 of a draft board that currently has three hundred and 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:10.079 two players on it. I'm gonna put the Dolphins projected 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:13.760 starters at each position into that board as well, so 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:16.320 you could kind of see how the prospects grade versus 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:22.320 the Dolphins actual players. But it's adjusting my draft grades 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:26.560 for the grades for what we know and understand the 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:29.120 Dolphins schemes to rely upon for trades to give you 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:34.160 a customized set of draft grades and a like traditional 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:36.679 big board and then like the draft room big board 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:38.520 where it's more presented horizontally. 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:42.520 I love the horizontal big board because and I've I've 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:45.440 almost found those crusade this offseason of like, hey, guys, 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:47.639 watch tape and these models are great. Teams pay a 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:50.720 lot of money to get analytics and models and research 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:52.760 and data behind the stuff, but you have to match 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:55.120 it with tape always. But I did see this take 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:58.840 on the horizontal board and how like, you know, all 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:00.960 this different information you can get from the draft over 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:03.560 year over year, I've seen models of build out, like 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:05.760 teams that are most likely to take which players based 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:08.120 upon their drafting history, and I'm like, that is an 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:12.040 incredible learning tool you can have. But the horizontal board, man, 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:15.320 it's so important because you can separate, Like you know, 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:17.240 I think the offensive tackle is a great position for 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:19.120 this every single year where it's like you look at 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:21.919 the tackle options you might have in the first round, 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:24.520 and then because of this potential dearth that comes, you know, 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:27.919 from picks twenty five to fifty whatever it might be, like, 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:30.760 you would then prioritize that position more because of the 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:34.200 horizontal board stacking where otherwise you might have the vertical 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:36.480 board that just tells you, you know, this guy's next, 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:38.520 this guy's next, and doesn't give you the actual like 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:42.360 percentage point grade breakdown. Does that make sense, Like that's 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:44.280 kind of the idea behind the horizontal board. 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:45.040 Right, Yeah. 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:49.280 And John Spytech, who's the GM of the Raiders, just 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:52.400 had a recent media spot where he talked about this 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:55.080 and talked about like the horizontal draft board and application 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:58.640 with when the Browns were drafting, when spy Tech was 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:01.200 there and they picked seven, and they ended up picking 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:03.760 Joe Hayden, and they say, kind of coming in, they 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:07.920 had a couple different scenarios for what that first pick 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:09.320 was gonna be, but one of the things that they 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:12.840 were prepared to have them do to nudge them towards 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:18.520 drafting Joe Hayden was seeing what other options they were 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:22.599 projecting were going to be available and how deep the 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:25.000 talent pools were at the next tier down where their 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:28.040 next pick was. Where they ended up drafting TJ. Ward, 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:31.119 who was a really good player, made three Pro Bowls 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:33.760 in the NFL as a starter for almost a decade, 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:38.520 So I thought that was a really cool like recent 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:43.440 media application of kind of this new fad way of 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:48.200 presenting draft information that that's not really the cookie cutter 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:50.200 one through three hundred style lists. 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:53.240 And on the last show I did Kyle, I talked 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:55.800 about having some draft fatigue and this this time of year, 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:58.039 it really starts to be like, Okay, let's just get 0:04:58.040 --> 0:04:59.680 on the clock right now because I'm done doing all 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:02.760 the stuff. But that's another reason why we had to 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:05.200 try to have multiple guests on different types of approaches, 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:08.479 because there's always some type of nook or crany to 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:11.960 cover with this draft you haven't thought of in unknown places, 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:13.760 and Kyle can help us find those a little bit. 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:16.120 So that's a great start off to the show here. 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:17.680 I want to kind of go back here a little 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:20.000 bit and talk about how we got to where we 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:23.400 are today for the Dolphins offseason and start with this, Kyle, 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:26.160 because you came on the show and we haven't had 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:28.760 you on since before the combine, and you talked about 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:31.560 this ahead of free agency about one of your pillars 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:34.200 or your goals of the off season was to get 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:38.320 younger and to get a model of competition through a 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:41.039 lot of draft picks. They have ten and signing guys 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:43.799 that were maybe fresh off that rookie contract that perhaps 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:46.840 didn't live up to their draft billing and position and 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:50.000 now could be possibly hungry and motivated to go out 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:52.360 there and perform at the highest level on every single 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:54.840 time they step on that grass. And I'm curious to 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:57.679 get your take on how you feel the Dolphins did 0:05:57.720 --> 0:05:58.520 in that department. 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:02.720 I think you can definitely look at some of the themes 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:08.559 between if emil afan Wu and kJ Britt and guys 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:11.560 like that that are coming off of rookie deals who 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:16.760 have shown some level of capability of filling a certain 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.640 kind of role and now have an opportunity with the 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:22.520 competition that is proceeded to be out there to perhaps 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:26.039 claim a bigger role here with the Dolphins, and you 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:29.000 know that youth element. I think one of the biggest 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.279 things with the defense is as you kind of watch 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:33.200 the back half of the season last year, even as 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:37.599 the statistics really impressive, I got done watching the tape 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:41.080 after the games not being able to help myself, but 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:43.360 to feel, man, we could really use like some more 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:48.800 dynamic athleticism. It's such a reactive space you have to 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:51.039 live in because you don't know the play, you're reacting 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:53.520 in real time, and more often than not, guys are 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:57.800 reacting moving backwards. So there's a lot of challenge and 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:02.880 a lot of special athletic ability that's that's required to 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:05.720 execute that and execute it at a high level. And 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:08.400 I think for the Dolphins to kind of get the 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.760 athleticism that they've got on the second level, to get 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:14.160 more explosive players on the back end, you know, we'll 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:16.960 see what the evolving picture at cornerback looks like for them. 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:19.160 It feels like diversity is going to be really helpful 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:22.800 for them obviously. You know, Chris Grier spoke what early 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:26.880 or early last week and and talked about the Swiss 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:29.600 Army knife nature of cater Kohu, and you know, they 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:32.239 they painted a lot of different pictures pre snap versus 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:35.640 what they gave you post snaps. So I definitely think 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:38.760 having younger players that maybe are a little bit better 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:43.600 equipped to play with that dynamic athleticism throughout the rigors 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:46.240 of a full season is something that you can look 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:49.000 to to say, hey, maybe maybe this can help create 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:51.560 some of those more game changing plays that it felt 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:54.920 like like from a turnover differential standpoint and turnovers last 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:57.640 year felt like they were close. There was a lot 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:00.760 of off a fingertips or or just it quite didn't 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:02.880 have the extra bounce in your step needed to undercut 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.360 that throw. Those are kinds of things that I'm looking 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:08.480 for as far as bringing in younger guys that have 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:11.120 a little little bit less miles on their legs in some. 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:13.560 Spots, and some of those hits from Chop Robinson that 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:15.480 were just a fraction of a second late from jar 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:17.200 and a ball loose and getting a strip sack that 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.520 way too. I think a lot of those players they 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:21.480 brought in for the thirty visits that were reported to 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:24.000 be down here from Miami for the pre draft visits 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:26.360 would check a lot of those boxes too. Between the 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:29.720 safeties they brought in, right, Nicky Man, Worry JJ Roberts. 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:31.800 Both those guys have some real juice to their game 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:33.760 and are fun to watch. And you make a point 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:35.920 about the cornerback group. I'm curious to see how they 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:38.400 build this thing out to their vision because I get 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:40.480 the sense that the defense has kind of been built 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:42.160 out to like, hey, weave, what do you need man? 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:44.320 Because you kind of proved it in year one that 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:46.080 you're a stud like let's go get what you want 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.400 in terms of the player types and archetypes. And remember 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:51.920 him talking last year about the value of cater Cooho 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:55.079 because of his ability to play both inside and out, 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:57.960 that it freed up Ramsey and Fuller to do what 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:01.040 made their careers really good was there to play inside out. 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:03.439 And so I'm curious to see if they'll go after 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:05.000 that or maybe they can reshape that room. 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:06.400 There's options there. 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:08.560 So we'll talk about that more on the draft portion 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.320 of the show, probably more on the second episode tomorrow 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:13.319 with you guys. Kyle joins me for two straight episodes 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:15.920 here talking about all things Dolphins off season and the 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:19.320 entire really draft process for them here coming up later 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:20.880 this week, and I want to go back to a 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:22.840 couple more things we talked about in the off season, Kyle, 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.200 And you know, we see the we've seen the Niners 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:29.600 really kind of pivot their off their their team building 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:32.440 approach this offseason and really say goodbye to a lot 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:35.520 of mainstays on that roster. We saw the Rams execute 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:37.960 something similar a couple of years ago, and you know 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:40.120 we didn't. Chris Career made it a points to say 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:42.920 we haven't mentioned the word soft rebuild or you know, 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:45.920 or what was the term just a rebuild in general? 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:50.800 I guess a restart maybe, but they have, you know, 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:53.280 the Ramsey trade, if when that happens, would be a 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:56.160 departure of that. Armstead's gone, Kalas Campbell's gone, some big 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:59.480 time veteran names. I'm curious to hear because you talked 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:01.600 about it before the draft, before the off season started, 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:03.760 was like, this could be an opportunity to kind of 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:07.320 change the face of the roster in a sense, they've 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:09.240 kind of done that. I'm curious to get your take 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:12.160 on that and how it can be fruitful even if 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:14.000 the star power and name power is not the same 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:14.880 as it was last year. 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:18.480 Yeah, I think you know, if you sit down and 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:22.200 you have the honest conversation about life cycles for teams 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:24.760 across the league and how long they usually are, and 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:30.200 there's exceptions like Kansas City with Patrick Mahomes Tom Brady 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:32.720 in New England and they were you know, and Dolphins 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:37.400 fans probably have a very different reality of team life 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:40.520 cycles because they had to coexist with a team that 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:44.200 won the division every year but won for but seventeen 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:48.440 years in New England. So like that that's not. You 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:51.679 see the graphics of like the NFC East, and it 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:54.199 was a different team you want it up until Philly 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:57.000 wanted a couple of times in a row, a different 0:10:57.000 --> 0:10:59.480 team won that division for like twelve straight years, or 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:05.720 the South or the AFC North or the NFC West, 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.319 where even when San Francisco has been successful, rams have 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:10.760 pushed him. The Cardinals had a successful season in there, 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:15.079 the Seahawks have been a successful team. So the life 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:19.640 cycles of teams across the league. Realistically, you have an 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:23.040 influx in young talent, and then those talents mature, and 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:26.160 then you have to make strategic decisions on what contracts 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:29.720 or second contracts, and at that point you can't pay everybody, 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:32.000 and then some players leave and then you kind of 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:34.480 have to take that new nucleus of the team, and 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:37.080 that's your starting point. And I think that's where for 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:41.600 the Dolphins, there was a coaching transition that happened dead 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:45.400 center in the middle of when this whole process started, 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:49.000 and I think that unfortunately, you know, when you look 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:51.960 to judge the entire body of work since twenty nineteen, 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:55.679 when they reset the roster as dramatically as they did, 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:00.720 there were circumstances throughout there that maybe didn't allow you 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:06.160 to fully maximize the cohesion within that six year window. 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:09.400 And now the life cycle has come full circle and 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:12.200 it's time for them to move on from some bigger 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:14.959 contracts and there's a bigger focus with the NFL draft 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:16.880 by having the most draft capital that they've had in 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:20.160 three or four years, and this is now the starting 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:23.319 point that they have. And I think everybody, regardless of 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:27.719 what last season looked like or the shortcomings or expectations 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:30.520 or any of that, the starting point for this year's 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:34.600 build of a new life cycle, I think everybody would agree, 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:37.520 looks a lot better as far as the young talent 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:39.960 that you have, some that are on second contracts already, 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:42.760 some players that are young players than what the nineteen 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:45.800 roster look like when you started that build. So now 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:48.520 it's a process. Okay, what's your starting point for this 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:53.040 life cycle versus the last one? And I think that's 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:55.840 where I view the Dolphins right now. 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:56.880 Man. 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:59.880 I love that take, because you know, I think it's 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.640 hard for fans to separate even what happened in two 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:05.160 thousand and four, for instance, from what is going on 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:08.360 right now, and you kind of accumulate all that not 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:11.120 ill will, but that just your emotions attached to that, 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:13.319 and you can kind of unload on a twenty twenty 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:15.360 five football team. And look, I'm not gonna sit here 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:18.360 and say, like you know, on paper it's a super 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:20.040 Bowl like oor bus type of team. 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:21.240 I don't think anybody would say that. 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:23.960 But I think where fans get upset and like we 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:27.400 see this every year, is that on paper, it's not 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:29.679 gonna be as fun this offseason. Like you're gonna hear 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:32.680 the sports media talk shows are gonna be what's going 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:33.960 on with the Dolphins, what's the plan? 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:34.600 All that stuff. 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:37.240 But the exact same thing happened for the Buffalo Bills 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:39.560 last year and they probably had their best crack at 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:42.280 the Kansas City Chiefs come playoff time at getting over 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:42.680 that hump. 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:44.320 They didn't do it. And of course they. 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:47.119 Have, you know, a generational quarterback and you know, stability 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:49.480 and all that stuff. But the point is that like 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:53.280 there's this happens every year where it's the best organizations 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:55.280 can find ways to pivot out of certain cycles, to 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:57.679 your point and find their way back into winning modes, 0:13:57.679 --> 0:13:59.520 and sometimes they come out of that better. Will it 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:01.680 happen for the Dolphins. We don't know, but we'll see 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:03.360 what's going to come of it. And I know Kyle's 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:06.000 in the same frame of mind as me in terms of, like, 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.440 let's let this roster build out fully before we judge it. 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:10.760 For week one, We'll go ahead and come back and 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:13.760 talk about the buildout of the team, Kyle's free agent favorites. 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:15.839 I want to spend some time talking to you about 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:19.040 the books, because you're so good in the numbers aspect 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:21.040 of all that. That's all next before our third segment 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:23.320 talking about pick thirteen of this year's draft. All of 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:25.240 that coming up with Kyle Crabs and the Draft Time 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:31.560 Podcast brought to you by Auto Nation. Segment two here 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:34.000 with our part one episode with the Great Kyle Krabs 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:37.760 locked on Dolphins podcast, talking about the Dolphins this offseason 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:40.960 heading into this week's draft. Ten picks to come. One 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:46.160 on Thursday, We'll have two on Friday, and then seven 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:48.920 on Saturday. A busy day on Saturday. Man, we'll see 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:51.000 what happens if those picks actually stay where they are. 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:53.200 But Kyle, I want to get two more questions for 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:55.360 you in this segment before we get to the draft itself, 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:57.480 and just kind of talk to you about the buildout 0:14:57.560 --> 0:14:58.120 of the team. 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:00.400 And you know, I've seen a lot of. 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:04.120 Discussion out there, more this year seemingly than ever before, 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:08.120 about like cash over cap and cap commitments, and like 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:11.000 it seems like everyone's starting to kind of plant their 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:14.240 flag on these discussions. But then I come back to Kyle, like, Hey, 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:15.920 tell me what really is going on here? And Kyle 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:18.480 is like abc D all the way through Z and 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:20.840 explains it thoroughly. So when you look at the Dolphins, 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:25.040 I guess they're books for now the shift of where 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:27.640 the money comes and goes, and like what it means 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:29.520 for the future. Can you just take us through the 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:32.680 management of money and cap and all the stuff that 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:34.800 you've seen the Dolphins execute in the past, what this 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:36.880 year has done, and what it means going forward. 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:40.160 Yeah. According to spot track dot Com right now, the 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:46.080 Dolphins currently sit seventh in the NFL in total cash. 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:48.760 And I'll tell you a lot of my team building 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:55.680 and economics of the draft insights have come from Raven CM. 0:15:55.800 --> 0:16:01.120 Eric de Coosta did a lecture that long ago with 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:04.280 former college football player Adam Brenneman, and he talked about 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:10.080 the economics of like team management and staying competitive annually 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:15.680 and the Ravens annually. They aspire to spend cash overcap, more, 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:18.560 spend more cash than what the salary cap is on 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:23.080 an annual basis. But their insight is on any given year, 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:30.000 they aspire to be between the sixth and the tenth 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:33.640 or the eighth or the twelfth, somewhere like in the 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:37.800 bottom half of that upper third of the league in 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:40.960 cash spend, and they say that feels like that allows 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:45.920 us to annually maintain a competitive nature to our roster. 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:49.840 And the Dolphins obviously with moving on from Toront Armstead 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:53.880 and now potentially looking at moving on from Jalen Ramsey. 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:56.520 If they move Jalen Ramsey, you could take another twenty 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:58.760 one million dollars off of their current cash spend, which 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:03.400 would drop them from seventh in the NFL to I'm 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:05.479 gonna do bath in real time. Here's gonna be a 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:09.840 disaster down to twenty second in the NFL, just by 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:12.119 moving on from the Ramsey contract, if they get somebody 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:14.320 to take the full contract, if they find a partner 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:16.280 in which they want to trade jam Ramsey. 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:16.160 So. 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:20.960 That process for them. The last couple of years they've 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:25.760 been more towards the top with caspen and that's going 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:28.280 to happen when you give out contract extensions like a 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:31.160 quarterback contract. Last year, they were fifth in the NFL 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:35.119 in cash spend. In twenty twenty three, the Dolphins ranked 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:39.199 eighth in the NFL. So they haven't like peaked in 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:43.240 maxed out. But I think that's where you go back 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:48.399 to the cash spend window and then this transition that 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:51.840 we're seeing the team take where you contrast that with 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:56.080 teams like New Orleans and a team like Cleveland. I mean, 0:17:56.119 --> 0:18:00.119 Cleveland's been top three in cast spent in each of 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:03.680 like the last four seasons, and you look at twenty 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:07.120 twenty five, they're still third in the NFL and cash 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:10.000 ben right now, and they're only eleven million dollars off 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:14.280 from being number one in cash bed now. Philadelphia has 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:16.520 been another team that's been very aggressive like that, and 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:19.240 the way that they've done that is by putting dummy 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:21.840 years on the back end of contracts. But Philly won 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:23.479 the Super Bowl and then they said, hey, let's make 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:26.399 some hard personnel decisions and get rid of some guys 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:30.840 and you know, not allow this to snowball, in which 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:32.720 the world where you become a team like New Orleans, 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:35.320 whos to restructure every contract you have on the books 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:38.440 just to get compliant. Then you let anybody that's that's 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:42.200 looking at a second contract walk, and you know, you're 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:44.160 pretty much just waiting for players to decide that they're 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:46.120 done playing, to be able to transition from a lot 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:51.520 of players, so you can spend cash overcap, but if 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:54.520 you have the peaks where you spend higher, you even 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:56.600 need to drop it back down to kind of bring 0:18:56.640 --> 0:19:00.000 your your future debt back in line, or you need 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:01.959 to say we're just going to do this in perpetuity 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:04.919 for forever until we're out of jobs, and then it's 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:10.080 somebody else's problem. This is why Miami's Miami's smart to 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:13.119 be doing it now and not just push it another 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:15.879 year and then push it another year, and you know, 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:17.960 I think that's setting the team up for long term failure. 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:21.959 Yeah yeah, And I mean we saw mentioned the Saints 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:26.160 that the Derek Carr situation right now seems like almost untenable. 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:27.639 We'll see what comes of that and what happens on 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:29.560 draft night. Maybe they gets another quarterback in the top 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:32.600 ten that pushes another talent to the Dolphins at pick thirteen. 0:19:32.640 --> 0:19:34.639 But I would just urge you, if you guys come 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:38.440 across cap stuff in the NFL it's confusing, just listen 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:40.360 to Kyle's show, please, because he does such a great 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:42.160 job of taking you through that and breaking it all 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:44.640 down and doing live math on the air too, which 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:46.920 you're better than I am, my friend, So I appreciate 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:49.840 you cranking those numbers out for us before our last 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:52.040 break and we dive into the draft here, Kyle, let's 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:54.800 talk about free agency. It was a frugal approach to 0:19:54.840 --> 0:19:56.760 free agency. There was a couple of big additions there, 0:19:56.800 --> 0:19:59.560 including one across the offensive line. Talk to us about 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:01.639 James and how he fits in the in the offense, 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:03.760